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Building Equity into Safer States – Webinar Series

Safe States is excited to launch a new webinar series to provide space for deeper exploration of the recently released “Building Equity into Safer States” resource, a tool designed to help injury and violence prevention (IVP) organizations integrate health equity across the core components of a model IVP program. Developed for IVP professionals, funders, advocates, and diverse partners, this resource can be used to enhance and strengthen health equity leadership, partnerships, programs, and more.

This six-part webinar series will provide a space for deeper exploration of the “Building Equity into Safer States” resource, share real-life examples, and discuss the standards and indicators for a model IVP program.

Webinar 1: What Does Health Equity Look Like on the Federal Level?

October 4, 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

Join health equity officers from the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) to learn how NCIPC is incorporating health equity into their organizational structure. Officers will share NCIPC’s Diversity, Equity Belong, Inclusion, Accessibility (DEBIA) strategic plan and investments in implementation efforts.

Learn more by viewing the presentation HERE

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Webinar 2: Global Diversity Equity and Inclusion Benchmarks

October 16, 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

Next up in the series, learn about the Global Diversity Equity and Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB) and how they can apply to your IVP efforts. Alan Richter, co-author of the GDEIB, will share information about using this tool to advance health equity. The GDEIB is a free resource for organizations worldwide that provides a strategic planning tool, a set of actions, and measures for progress toward diversity, equity, and inclusion. Organized into 15 categories across 4 groups, these benchmarks can apply to all sectors, sizes, and types of organizations. As referenced in “Building Equity Into Safer States,” the GDEIB can be used to build and sustain a solid, equitable, and stable infrastructure by providing actionable steps that IVP organizations can take to ensure equity is embedded in its goals, core values, leadership, and accountability.

Presenter:
Alan Richter
QED Consulting

Learn more by viewing the presentation HERE

View the recording HERE

Webinar 3: Building Equity Through Data Collection, Analysis and Dissemination

October 23, 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

In this webinar, presenters will share and discuss examples of initiatives that strengthen protective factors and reduce risk factors for injury and violence prevention. Participants will explore a tool that helps injury and violence prevention professionals ground resource allocation decisions in community input, scientific literature, and culturally specific strategies. Also considerations on how this tool might be adapted and adopted regularly in resource allocation decision making will be discussed.

Presenters:
Courtney Fultineer
Oregon Health Authority

Stephanie Pustejovsky
Comagine

Learn more by viewing the presentation HERE

View the recording HERE

Webinar 4: Embedding Equity into Hospital-Based Injury and Violence Prevention Programming

November 9, 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

Hospital-based injury and violence prevention programs have a unique space within the IVP world. Given the diverse populations served, centering programs around equity are crucial to ensuring IVP programs are reaching their target audiences. Embedding Equity into Hospital-Based Injury and Violence Prevention Programming will illustrate how equity has been incorporated into each of the IVP core components at a Level 1 Trauma Center by examining data sources, community partnerships, organizational structure, and identifying challenges and barriers.

Presenter:
Ashley Lamar
Trauma Injury Prevention Specialist
JPS Health Network

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Webinar 5: Building Equity in Firearm Injury Prevention Efforts Through Equitable Collaboration and Communication

November 13, 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

In this webinar, participants will learn more about working with advocates and the veteran population to develop firearm messaging and policy. There will also be discussion on collaborating with various stakeholders to develop injury and violence prevention (IVP) communication and forming coalitions with firearm injury prevention stakeholders. Lessons learned will be shared related to firearm messaging and policy efforts in Texas.

Presenter:
Dr. Sandra McKay
University of Texas Health Science Center

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Webinar 6: Training and Technical Assistance to Build Equity in Your IVP Programs

November 28, 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

Doreleena Sammons Hackett from the Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE) will discuss SOPHE’s health equity efforts and share information about the trainings they offer for helping public health practitioners advance health equity. Additionally, you will learn about Safe States’ upcoming trainings, technical assistance, and other learning opportunities to support you in your health equity initiatives.

Discuss SOPHE’s training opportunities
Discuss Safe States health equity training, technical assistance, and other learning opportunities
Review Safe States’ DEI Webpage and INformed – Online Training Center & Resource Hub

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Learn more about “Building Equity into Safer States” and access other tools and resources to support your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts here.

Student Showcase – April 2022

Overview:

This Student Showcase features two presentations from Safe States’ student members: Julia Burstein and Kristi Ladowski.

Julia Burstein is a first-year MPH student at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She will be presenting on a project that utilizes GIS technology to study the relationship between income and physically accessible subway stations in New York City.

Kristi Ladowski is a Doctoral Student at CUNY School of Public Health and Injury Prevention & Outreach Coordinator at Stony Brook Trauma Center. Her presentation will be on evaluating their organization’s virtual tai chi program’s reach, effectiveness, and participant satisfaction as it’s offered in a virtual and hybrid setting indefinitely. She’ll also share lessons learned and preliminary findings from the evaluation.

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Julia’s presentation

Kristi’s presentation

Applying a Shared Risk & Protective Factor Approach to Injury and Violence Prevention — Evaluating Shared Risk and Protective Factors to Address ACEs, Suicide, and Opioid Misuse – Examples from States

Overview

This is Webinar #2 in a two-part series showcasing examples from states on leveraging and evaluating shared risk and protective factors to address ACEs, suicide, and opioid misue. This interactive webinar features representatives from two states and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who share stories and lessons they have learned in their approach to connect work across three priority areas: ACEs, Suicide Prevention, and Opioid Misuse. This webinar provides an introduction to evaluation principles for shared risk and protective factors utilized by states and the CDC.

Learning Objectives

As a result of participating in this self-study training, participants will:

Participants will learn about how different communities approached evaluation to Shared Risk and Protective Factors.
Participants will better understand what challenges communities experienced when embarking on evaluation efforts with Shared Risk and Protective Factors and what they have learned in this process.

Presenters

Natalie Wilkens, CDC
Ali Maffey, Colorado
Deanna Ferrell, Utah
Allison Whitworth, Utah
Jennifer Woody Collins, Moderator

Continuing Education

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). This self-study training is designated for: (1) Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.5 total Category I continuing education contact hour, and (2) for professionals with a Certificate of Public Health (CPH) to receive 1.5 CPH Recertification Credit.

Training Instructions

To complete this training, you will need to:

Participate in the training by accessing the recorded webinar and additional resources:
Recorded Webinar #2
Webinar #2 Slides
Complete the online evaluation which includes questions for you to report CPH or CHES continuing education credits for this training. Please note, you must complete this online evaluation and its CPH and/or CHES questions in order for Safe States to submit your CPH and/or CHES credits to the respective CEU providers.
Create your certificate of completion.

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org or (770) 690-9000.

Applying the Public Health Approach to Recreational Boating Injury Prevention: Develop & Test Prevention Strategies

Overview

This is Webinar #3 in a four-part series entitled “Applying the Public Health Approach to Recreational Boating Injury Prevention.” This webinar provides a deeper dive into the Public Health Approach and Injury and Violence Prevention Core Competency #3 – The ability to to design and implement injury and/or violence prevention activities; and Core Competency #4 – The ability evaluate injury and/or violence prevention activities.

The series explores the topic of the Public Health Approach and how it can be applied to Recreational Boating Injury Prevention. Data shows that in 2017, the Coast Guard counted 4,291 accidents that involved 658 deaths, 2,629 injuries and approximately $46 million dollars of damage to property as a result of recreational boating accidents. State recreational boating safety programs are responsible for the annual implementation of more than 95% of all boating safety expenditures nationwide – including boating law enforcement, boating safety education, public access, aids to navigation and a range of other boating safety services.

The National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA) is committed to cultivating a boating public that is better prepared to engage in safer boating behavior, in part by assisting state boating safety agencies to become fluent in the public health approach to injury prevention. Nationally, NASBLA brings together state recreational boating safety agencies for standardization and reciprocity in public policy development, communicating strategies, coordination, information sharing, education, and training.

NASBLA partnered with the Safe States Alliance to present the four-part webinar series on the Public Health Approach to Injury Prevention, with a focus on recreational boating injuries. The series is organized by each of the key four steps in the Public Health Approach, with relevant Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention mapped to each of these four steps. These Core Competencies can provide a road map for gaining or strengthening the essential knowledge, skills and behaviors needed to grow professionally, and strengthen the field and practice of injury and violence prevention, including recreational boating injury prevention.

Learning Objectives

As a result of participating in this self-study training, participants will:

Learn about the Public Health Approach and how it can be applied to Recreational Boating Injury Prevention.

Learn more about Injury and Violence Prevention Core Competency #3 – The ability to design and implement injury and/or violence prevention activities and Core Competency #4 – The ability to evaluate injury and/or violence prevention programs.

Presenters

Dr. Jamila Porter, Safe States Alliance
Joe McCullough, Alaska Office of Boating Safety
Kelli Toth, Alaska Office of Boating Safety

Continuing Education

Training Instructions

To complete this training, you will need to:

Participate in the training by accessing the recorded webinar and additional resources:
Recorded Webinar #3
Webinar #3 SlidesWebinar #3 Resource Document
Complete the online evaluation which includes questions for you to report CPH or CHES continuing education credits for this training. Please note, you must complete this online evaluation and its CPH and/or CHES questions in order for Safe States to submit your CPH and/or CHES credits to the respective CEU providers.
Create your certificate of completion.

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org or (770) 690-9000.

A Public Health Approach to Safe Sleep: Implementing and Evaluating a Multi-Level Program

This is Webinar #2 in a three-part series on safe infant sleep entitled “Systems for Safe Sleep: Purposefully Building Programs for Effective Public Health Partnerships.”

This series explores the topic through the lens of the Multi-Sectoral Influences Matrix (M-SIM), a tool that helps broadly scope programs and meaningfully engage the full spectrum of partners and perspectives that are affected by an intervention. The series is presented by the Southeastern and Southwestern Injury Prevention Network and the Safe States Alliance.

In Webinar #2, “A Public Health Approach to Safe Sleep: Implementing and Evaluating a Multi-Level Program,” presenters discuss Tennessee’s approach to safe sleep and provide ideas on how to apply their approach at the community level. Tennessee has had a great deal of success with its safe infant sleep programming, and has worked with hospitals, parents, providers, and the business community to implement a multi-faceted prevention campaign that has shown positive results. Importantly, these results are known because each arm of the program has included an evaluation that captures what and how the work was done, as well as its impact.

Learning Objectives

After participating in this webinar, participants will:

– Understand how Tennessee’s has worked with hospitals, parents, providers, and the business community to implement a multi-faceted prevention campaign that has shown positive results to promote safe infant sleep

– Learn methods for evaluating a multi-faceted safe infant sleep campaign program to demonstrate its impact

Presenters

Rachel Heitmann, Tennessee Department of Health, Injury Prevention and Detection

April Kincaid, Tennessee Department of Health, Child Fatality Review

Creating, Implementing and Evaluating Injury Prevention Interventions

This is Webinar #4 in a six-part series entitled “Improving your Injury and Violence Prevention Practice with the Core Competencies.” The series is presented by the Southeastern and Southwestern Injury Prevention Network and the Safe States Alliance.

In this webinar series, experienced professionals in the field discuss how they use the Core Competencies for Injury and Violence Prevention (IVP) to develop and advance their own skills, as well as those of staff they manage. The Core Competencies can provide a roadmap for gaining or strengthening the essential knowledge, skills and behaviors needed to grow professionally; develop, implement and evaluate IVP programs and policies; and strengthen the field and practice of IVP.

Webinar #1 provides the rational for this series, highlighting the ways the competencies can help participants in their work. Webinars #2-6 address Core Competencies for IVP #1-7, and core competencies #8-9 are addressed throughout each presentation.

This webinar series is relevant to those with a variety of experiences and/or years of service, including:

– Professionals working in IVP and/or other areas of public health

– Individuals anywhere along the spectrum of professional development –those new to public health and/or IVP, and those who have been working for several years and want to further develop their competencies.

Learning Objectives

After participating in this webinar, participants will:

– Understand IVP Core Competency #3: Ability to design and implement injury and/or violence prevention activities.

– Enhance your competency in IVP program design, implementation and evaluation, including:

* Identify and explain the roles of national, state and local level agencies and organizations that can serve as resources for prevention efforts

* Explain the role and benefits of collaboration in prevention efforts

* For a given injury or violence problem, choose and justify an intervention based on 1) relevant data, 2) characteristics of the intended audience, 3) a conceptual model or theory (e.g. social ecological model, stages of change, etc.) and 4) evidence related to “best practice”

– Understand IVP Core Competency #4: Ability to evaluate injury and/or violence prevention activities

– Enhance your competency in IVP program evaluation, including:

* Understand how evaluation should be integrated into intervention design and implementation

Presenters

Jamila Porter, Director of Programs and Evaluation, Safe States Alliance

Lindsey Myers, Branch Chief, Violence and Injury Prevention – Mental Health Promotion Branch, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Jarrod Hindman, Deputy Chief, Violence and Injury Prevention – Mental Health Promotion Branch, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Safety Takes Synergy: Lessons & Successes from the Pedestrian Injury Prevention Action Team Program

Overview

Decreasing pedestrian injuries and fatalities requires strong partnerships between a variety of state and local agencies. Developed by the Safe States Alliance and funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Pedestrian Injury Prevention Action Team Program was designed to enhance statewide pedestrian safety efforts by helping practitioners strengthen partnerships and align efforts between those working in a variety of fields, including public health, transportation, planning, education, law enforcement, and advocacy. This self-study will present lessons and successes from the program and give examples from two states.

Learning Objectives

As a result of participating in this self-study training, participants will:

— Learn about lessons and successes from the program (documented in an impact evaluation report from the Safe States Alliance)

— Understand how Action Team members from two states have used multidisciplinary collaborations they’ve created through the program to successfully advance pedestrian safety initiatives across their respective states

— Learn how to engage partners across a variety of disciplines to achieve shared goals and ensure that pedestrian safety efforts are meaningful and impactful.

Presenters

Jamila Porter, Safe States Alliance
Officer Robert McCool, Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
Lloyd Jordison, Madison County Health Department (KY)
Mia Patriarca, Rhode Island Department of Health
Bari Freeman, Bike Newport

Taking Steps to Prevent Pedestrian Injuries: New Tools and Resources Webinar

Over 4,000 people in the United States die each year from pedestrian-related injuries. This one-hour webinar highlights resources created by national organizations to advance pedestrian injury prevention and safety. Representatives from America Walks, the National Complete Streets Coalition, the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center, and the Safe States Alliance share recently developed tools, resources, and initiatives related to pedestrian injury prevention.

During the webinar, the Safe States Alliance also launched its Pedestrian Injury Prevention Portal, which will serve as a hub for connecting users to existing pedestrian injury prevention tools and resources. The training will allow you to:

* 1. Identify leading national organizations involved in pedestrian injury prevention and safety.

* 2. Describe new tools, resources, and initiatives that have been recently developed by national organizations related to pedestrian injury prevention and safety.

* 3. Launch the Safe States Alliance’s Pedestrian Injury Prevention Portal to locate tools and resources for pedestrian injury prevention efforts.

Using Logic Models in Planning & Evaluation

Thoroughly understanding one’s program is central to program planning and evaluation. Logic models can and should be a helpful tool, but too often, dogmatic or overly complicated approaches to developing logic models undermine their utility. This webinar presents a straightforward approach to creating logic models, recapturing their added value as a tool. Course content defines the basic components of logic models, provides some insights on when to include or exclude these terms from models, and applies teaching points to some simple cases. It also demonstrate how a decent, yet simple logic model helps guide key questions in planning and evaluation.

Using Policy to Prevent Teen Dating Violence

The theme for the 2011 ASTHO, NACCHO, & Safe States Alliance webcast series is “Special Topics in Violence Prevention.”

Abuse in dating relationships among adolescents is a serious public health problem of growing concern. Victims of teen dating violence are more likely to do poorly in school, engage in substance abuse, and attempt suicide. To effectively address teen dating violence, policies must be implemented to empower and protect adolescents, as well as provide support to families, schools, and others that can assist teens. Public health professionals can play a critical role in addressing teen dating violence by engaging policymakers, building strong partnerships and coalitions, and advocating for comprehensive policies that emphasize education and prevention.

During this webinar, participants learn about existing state policies that universally address teen dating violence, the components of enacted policies, the various roles that state and local entities play in implementing these policies, and how public health professionals can build support for the adoption and enactment of policies through coalitions and collaborations with diverse partners.

The three webinars in this series are: Webinar 1: Using Policy to Prevent Teen Dating Violence; Webinar 2: Exploring the Intersection: Enhancing Active Living through Violence Prevention; Webinar 3: Programs and Partnerships to Prevent Gang-Related Youth Violence

The video in this self-study may not work properly as appropriate software may no longer be available to support it – causing an error stating “Missing codec – This item was encoded in a format that’s not supported”. Audio and Powerpoint slides are still available and meet the requirements for receiving CHES and CPH credits. If you experience issues, please direct questions to info@safestates.org.

Exploring the Intersection: Enhancing Active Living through Violence Prevention

The theme for the 2011 ASTHO, NACCHO, & Safe States Alliance webcast series is “Special Topics in Violence Prevention.”

Violence and the fear of violence can have far-reaching negative consequences and undermine efforts to improve the health and safety of communities. Perceptions of areas as being violent or unsafe may often prevent adults and children from engaging in a host of healthy activities — ranging from walking to schools and workplaces to utilizing parks and recreational areas. As a result, this lack of physical activity can be a substantial factor in the onset of chronic disease. Research has linked several chronic health conditions to a lack of physical activity, including asthma, diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension. Violence only serves to exacerbate these conditions as it is a significant barrier that keeps individuals from leading healthy, active lives. Preventing violence is an imperative step in promoting safe and healthy communities and in minimizing the burden of disease. Both violence and chronic disease can be prevented by using a collaborative public health approach.

This webcast will feature presentations that will discuss the unique intersection between chronic disease and violence and provide examples of efforts that successfully address both issues. By utilizing innovative approaches and strategies, public health practitioners and other stakeholders at local, state, and national levels can help communities across the country benefit from integrated efforts to prevent violence and increase active living.

Programs and Partnerships to Prevent Gang-Related Youth Violence

The theme for the 2011 ASTHO, NACCHO, & Safe States Alliance webcast series is “Special Topics in Violence Prevention.”

Gang-related youth violence is a complex public health problem that can be addressed by using innovative, prevention-focused strategies and strong, collaborative partnerships. Acknowledging the impact of firearms on the lethality of gang-related violence, it is critical to explore the public health role in supporting primary and secondary prevention efforts to minimize violence-related firearm deaths and injuries that continue to disproportionately affect youth. This webcast features presentations by professionals and experts that are actively implementing programs in their states and communities to prevent gang-related violence. During this webcast, speakers address the national burden of firearm-related injuries among youth, describe programs currently being implemented to prevent gang-related violence and enhance youth empowerment, and provide insights on how to address the challenges of delivering effective violence prevention programs that utilize a public health approach.

Learn Your Concussion ABCs: Addressing Concussions in School Settings

During this webinar, CDC and Safe States Alliance present new and free resources that will help you: *Know the signs, symptoms and affects of a concussion on students K-12. *Know how to prevent and respond to concussions in school. *Explore school-wide approaches to addressing concussion. *Learn ways to support individual students returning to school after a concussion.

Preparing for Core Funding Series: Evaluation for Impact

The webinar series Preparing for Core Funding will identify and address questions of states interested in applying for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) funding (2016) to support core activities of state health department injury prevention programs.

The goals of the series include:

* Provide a venue for peer-to-peer information sharing;

* Provide information on the elements needed to be a successful state injury prevention program;

* Provide information and tools that can help build any needed capacity in advance of the funding announcement’s release; and

* Respond to evolving needs of the injury prevention community as new information comes to light about the funding announcement.

The five webinars in the series are: * Webinar 1: Overview of the Core Program: Getting Familiar with the Basics * Webinar 2: Building Capacity Before you Have Funding * Webinar 3: Epidemiology and Surveillance Capacity * Webinar 4: State Plans and Injury Community Planning Groups * Webinar 5: Evaluation for Impact

State of the States: 2011 Report Findings

The State of the States: 2011 Report highlights results from the Safe States Alliance 2011 State of the States survey, the only national assessment of capacity among state public health injury and violence prevention programs in the United States. The survey provided essential information based on the five core components identified by the Safe States Alliance as critical to the development, growth, and sustainability of innovative and effective state IVP programs. They included: * Building a solid infrastructure; * Collecting and analyzing data; * Designing, implementing, and evaluating programs; * Providing technical support and training; and * Affecting public policy. This webinar conveyed: * Key findings from the 2011 report, including the most up-to-date and comprehensive information about the structure, organization, people, resources, and work of state injury and violence prevention programs; and * Comparisons to trended data from the 2005, 2007, and 2009 surveys in order to highlight changes and achievements accomplished by state injury and violence prevention programs over time.

#Prevention: How State and Local Health Departments Can Capitalize on Social Media

The theme for the 2012 ASTHO, NACCHO, & Safe States Alliance webcast series is “Using Communication and Media to Prevent Injuries & Violence.”

This is the second of the three-part webinar series. Web- and mobile-based media platforms can help public health practitioners communicate personalized and targeted health messages, particularly among populations that rely on wireless technologies to interact and exchange information. By leveraging social media channels, state and local public health agencies have opportunities to use these innovative technologies to publicly communicate messages that are accurate, actionable, and science-based. However, while these opportunities exist, public health professionals are still determining best practices for effectively utilizing social media to communicate with decision-makers and the public.

This webcast will highlight three organizations that have been studying and utilizing social media to strategically and successfully engage and communicate with the public. During this webcast, participants will:

Learn ways public health agencies have used social media platforms;

Understand benefits and challenges of using social media; and

Gain new ideas for reaching decision-makers, partners, and members of the public using social media technologies.

The three webinars in this series are: Webinar 1: Making the Front Page: Using Media Strategies to Promote Injury and Violence Prevention Programs, Webinar 2: #Prevention: How State and Local Health Departments Can Capitalize on Social Media, Webinar 3: Evaluating Web-Based Public Health and Public Awareness Campaigns

Evaluating Web-Based Public Health and Public Awareness Campaigns

The theme for the 2012 ASTHO, NACCHO, & Safe States Alliance webcast series is “Using Communication and Media to Prevent Injuries & Violence.”

This is the third webinar in the three-part series. Evaluating public health interventions is a necessary step in determining health improvement. Results from robust evaluations assist public health professionals in identifying the links between program inputs, activities, and outcomes to guide improvement and drive behavior change. The same is true for web-based and multimedia public health campaigns, especially as they are becoming increasingly more common. Evaluating the effects of exposure to public awareness campaigns helps understand how these programs can supplement evidence-based programs, or serve as a standalone strategy for engaging target audiences.

Highlighting examples from public awareness campaigns and web-based social media projects, this webcast will:

Describe methods for evaluation and measurement
Learn how public health agencies have engaged communities and stakeholders through web-based and social media platforms
Discuss the development and outcomes of public health campaigns in the context of promoting mental health, and preventing child abuse and neglect;
Review methods for collecting data during social media events (e.g., live Twitter chats)

Broadening the Context for Injury & Violence Prevention: A Cliff Analogy and a Gardener’s Tale

Part 1 of this two-part webinar series on Injury, Violence, Health Equity & Social Justice.

An Introduction to Health Equity & Social Justice

Prevention Institute staff Lisa Fujie Parks, MPH, opened the webinar with a brief introduction to health equity and social justice and their importance to public health practice, including injury and violence prevention. Prevention Institute encourages community health and health equity by facilitating a deeper collective understanding of how root causes — such as racism and poverty — shape community environments and norms which, in turn, influence outcomes for health, safety, and health equity. To learn more, download the Prevention Institute’s fact sheet, Links Between Violence and Health Equity.

Broadening the Context for Injury and Violence Prevention: A Cliff Analogy and a Gardener’s Tale

Featured speaker, Dr. Camara Jones, discussed the interconnections between health interventions, the social determinants of health, health inequity, and the mechanisms by which systems of structured inequity affect populations. Through the lens of the injury and violence prevention goals outlined by Healthy People 2020, Dr. Jones discussed how racism adversely impacts health outcomes and unfairly advantages or disadvantages specific individuals and communities. Using her celebrated article Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener’s Tale as a foundation, she offered perspectives on the relationships between race, ethnicity, social class, and health.

Health Equity & Social Justice: Changing the Narrative to Prevent Injuries & Violence

Part 2 of this two-part webinar series on Injury, Violence, Health Equity & Social Justice.

The second webinar in the 2014-2015 ASTHO-NACCHO-Safe States webinar series examined the social and political systems that generate health inequities, and showed how a local health department is working on these inequities through programs relevant to injury and violence prevention.

The Politics of Health Inequity: Public Narrative and Social Justice

Richard Hofrichter, PhD explored how racism and class exploitation are fundamental causes of health inequity, and how the dominant public narrative obscures imbalances in political power and serves to limit public health-driven solutions to programs and services instead of widespread social changes.

Taking Action to Achieve Health Equity: The Alameda County Public Health Department

Katherine Schaff, MPH discussed why the Alameda County Public Health Department (Oakland, CA) is focused on social inequities and health equity, how it promotes health equity through a comprehensive community-centered local policy agenda, and what it took to get there. She provided an overview of ACPHD’s work, including its Place Matters local policy initiative and other concrete examples of working on underlying social inequities.

Policy Evaluation Series: Webinar 2 — Violence Prevention

During part two of this three-part webinar series on policy evaluation, you will hear from presenters that are evaluating policies related to violence prevention. Presenters will discuss the methodology and challenges of policy evaluation, as well as what they hope to achieve as part of the evaluation process.

Webinars in this series are: Webinar 1: Policy Evaluation: Prescription Drug Use Webinar 2: Policy Evaluation: Violence Prevention Webinar 3: Policy Evaluation: Motor Vehicle Safety

Topic: Evaluation

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